Bagdad is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of Gmina Wyrzysk, within

Piła County __NOTOC__ Piła County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in ...

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, in west-central

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. It lies approximately north-east of Wyrzysk, east of

Piła Piła (; ) is a city in northwestern Poland and the capital of Piła County, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its population was 71,846, making it the city in the voivodeship after Poznań and Kalisz and the largest city in the north ...

, and north of the regional capital

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. In 2006 the village had a population of 120. Formerly, before

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, Bagdad was a farm and belonged to Mieczysław Chłapowski, a Polish landlord and politician.Towarzystwo Pamięci Powstania Wielkopolskiego (Society for the Memory of the Greater Poland Uprising)
(in Polish) The village currently has a

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(

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style), and a

stud farm A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock. The word "stud (animal), stud" comes from the Old English ''stod'' meaning "herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding". Historically, ...

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Villages in Piła County {{Piła-geo-stub